St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-20
FOR SMALL POCKETBOOKS.
How to Supply the Table With
Wholesome Food on $25 a
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: 1t is said that there are at least ten
thousand families in New York who are
obliged to live Oh S12 a week. Car
drivers and conductors, lOngShOremen
and many other laborers receive only
that amount, and when the rent and the
fuel, not to mention clothes, must come
out of that sum, it is most difficult to
have sufficient left for nOuriShing food.
OF course children can be reared strong
and healthy on oatmeal and milk given
three times day with little else be-
sides, but even the poorest American
feels abused and degraded unless he
can provide more luxurious living. AL
lowing SO month rent. s. for coal and
81 for light out of the $50 month, there
is S35 left. If $40 is needed for clothing
there is but $25 for the table. Counting
by days this would allow 81 for five
Sundays and 662s cents for weeks days.
With care in marketing and close
economy such an amount should pro-
vide healthy food for family of par
ents and four or five children. Here is
Sunday menu:
For breakfast half pound of good
Irish oatmeal, boiled two hours in a
quart of water, sailed and eaten with a
pint of milk. Cost cents for meal, 5
cents for milk, 2 cents for sugar. A
loaf of sweet Graham bread, 8 cents,
eaten with a soft boiled egg for each
one in the family, say six for II cents;
a cup of coffee, 5 cents, boiled in three
pintS of water. Total cost 80 cents for
good nourishing meal, which should be
enough until 2 o'clock dinner.
The dinner menu includes beef soup,
made out of scent bone of beef, with
8 cents worth of barley, two potatoes
cut up fine and 2 cents worth of vege-
tableS-cOst 10 cents; a small roast of
muttOn-the shOuider-four pounds for
25 cents; cents worth of good pOta-
toes, cents worth of bread, the same
of butter and the same of green apples
nicely baked and eaten with sugar.
Total cost of dinner, so cents.
Out of the dollar there will be 20
cents left for tea. This will buy tea
enough for cents for the meal, good
loaf of bread for 5 cents, and nice
dish of green pears baked in mOlaSSeS.
There will be mutton enough left on
Monday for fathers lunch. The break
fast can be the same as on Sunday, with
good sausage meat instead of eggs, the
luncheon bread and milk with fried
potatoes. or rice and milk with bread
and butter; and the supper, which
should be the best meal of the day.
good bic of cOrned beef boiled with
carrots, roasted potatoes and a bread
pudding made of stale bread, cup of
raisins, a little molasses, one egg and
sugar to taste, baked half an hour.
The cost of these three meals will not
exceed the 66 cents, and with care one
can keep within the limit and yet live
well. if plainly.
An inexpensive lobster salad for Sun
day evening tea or luncheon is made as
follows: Purchase a can Of the lobster
A good brand will cost about 20 cents.
The can contains the meat of two lob
sters, and is far cheaper than they could
be bought and cooked. Remove the
meat into a deep dish or salad bowl,
leaving little of the liquid in the can
to mix with the dressing: then put the
lobster on the ice. Make dressing out
of the yOlks of two hard-boiled eggs,
mixed with the yOlks of two raw eggs
lemons, teaspoonful of made mustard
and tablespoonful of salad oil. with a
pinch of salt and of sugar. Mix all to-
gether well and set on the ice. Just be-
fore the salad is needed pick the lobster
apart with a fork, add head of lettuce
cut in fine shreds and mix with the
dressing. Ad0rn the top with a few
pieces of the lettuce. sticking the heart
of the head in the center. If this salad
is made on Saturday or Sunday morning
it will be deliciously cold by evening.
Salmon salad may be made in the same
way.
A soda-cracker pudding is highly re-
commended by those who have tried it.
Break a dozen crackers into pudding
dish, beat three eggs with three table
spoOnfuls of white sugar, add pint of
milk and flavor with vanilla, add half
dozen apples peeled and sliced in
eighths to the crackers, pour on the
milk and eggs and bake for half-hOur.
1t may be eaten either cold or hot, with
or without butter and sugar sauce.
Prune tarts are cheap and more
healthful than ordinary pie. TO make
the paste mix pint Of plain flour with
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